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Hold dear to Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, the most resonant book about suburban life. Author D. J. Waldie composed it in 316 fragments, at turns reportorial and soulful – children playing under the oleanders, dogs setting off a roundelay of barks, conviviality on the sidewalks – to chronicle the birth and life of Lakewood.

— Joan Katharine Whittemore, Boston Globe

Infinitely moving and powerful, just dead-on right, and absolutely original.

“California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way” (2012, Los Angeles County Museum of Art), guest lecturer

“A Throw of the Dice: Artists Inspired By a Visual Text: (2003, University of California, Irvine), contributor

“Mallarmé at the Millennium” (1999, City University of New York; contributor), lecturer

Archival Film Research and Editing

The War from the Air (1975, Nova ▪ PBS)

Hitler’s Secret Weapon (1976, Nova ▪ PBS)

Will Rogers: America in the ‘20s (1977, Will Rogers Foundation).

Translation

Poem: A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance: An American translation of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés (Greenhouse Review Press, 1990; reprinted with an introductory essay, Parnassus Poetry in Review, Vol. 26, No 1, 2001; included in The Lost Origins of the Essay, John D'Agata, ed., Graywolf Press, 2008 )

Online

A miscellany of online essays, podcasts, and videos by or about D. J. Waldie.

Online

A miscellany of online essays, podcasts, and videos by or about D. J. Waldie.